Class 1 to 12 students to get free textbooks: Chairman STBT

HYDERABAD: The Chairman Sindh Textbook Board (STBT) Syed Zakir Hussain Shah has said the process of publishing school books has been completed for free distribution at the government schools in the province.

While talking to the media at Information Technology Database Center in Jamshoro on Wednesday, Shah said the distribution of free books to the students from classes 1 to 12 would start as soon as the new academic year starts.

“The biometric data of the distribution to all districts and schools in Sindh will also be maintained,” he observed.
The Chairman informed that around 27.5 million books had been published for the ongoing year.

He said the publishers of the books had been warned of cancellation of their licenses if they failed to use quality paper in the publishing.